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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin? — Frederick Douglass

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people. — Jeb Bush

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people. — Jacques Maritain

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time. — Herbert Hoover

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself. — John Knowles

The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said. — William J. Clinton

'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different. — Crystal Bowersox

I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably. — Jefferson Mays

There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. — Gore Vidal

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people. — Mary Harris Jones

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century. — Russell Means

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. — Michael Moore

I do not mix up Bush's America with the American people. The American people are our friends. — Segolene Royal

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep. — John McCain

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States. — Amy Goodman

I don't think the American people want unilateral government control over the entire health-care system. — Judd Gregg

The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth. — T. Boone Pickens

I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out — Zalmay Khalilzad

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. — Rick Perry

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. — Elliott Abrams

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way. — Cynthia Carroll

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop. — Jacob Lew

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows. — Zoe Lofgren

There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people. — Mark Udall

So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. — Henry Louis Gates

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. — Robert Green Ingersoll

None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people. — Michael Huffington

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people. — James Bovard

America is the most compassionate country in the entire world. We do more for folks around this world. And that's the nature of the American people. — Bobby Jindal

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people. — Paul Robeson

I think what the American people want more than anything else is a strong and decisive leader. — Chris Christie

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is. — Desi Arnaz

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go ... — William McKinley

I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American, by and large. — Michele Bachmann

Lying to the American people wasn't part of my job description. — Ralph W. Moss

The facts are clear. Obamacare is failing the American people. — Kevin McCarthy

We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems. — Benjamin Carson

I'm going to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great. — Barack Obama

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy. — Condoleezza Rice

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. — Chuck Palahniuk

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned. — Henry A. Kissinger

The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later. — John Podesta

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people. — Susan B. Anthony

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. — Al Smith

If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign. — William J. Clinton

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman. — Julie Delpy

President Obama trusts in the wisdom of government. I put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the American people. — Mitt Romney

We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world. — Hamilton Jordan

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work. — George Mikes

The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit. — Marsha Blackburn

Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen. — Daniel Wu

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people. — Jay Rockefeller

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free. — Bob Schieffer

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people. — Immanuel Kant

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return. — Blanche Lincoln

I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags. — Seymour Hersh

I would say to the new leadership the American people are ready to meet you if you move forward toward the path of democracy. — Hillary Clinton

I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed. — Foster Friess

One thing Republicans understand: In American elections, you have to choose from among only two people - not between the perfect and the good. — Rick Perlstein

Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts. — Anasazi Foundation

We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream. — Julian Castro

We have to show the American People that war is not patriotic. — Justin Raimondo

I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face. — Nancy Pelosi

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. — Phil Gramm

The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry. — Bernie Sanders

I like his consistency, because Bernie Sanders talk - it boils down to the American people. His one thing is the American people. — Killer Mike

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement. — Chris Cannon

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders. — Barack Obama

I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system. — Bernie Sanders

There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs. — John Dingell

I'm optimistic about the country; I'm optimistic about the American people. — Howard Schultz

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through. — Luis Fortuno

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people. — Rand Paul

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. — Chief Seattle

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people. — Frank Lautenberg

A people without the knowledge of ... — Marcus Garvey

I don't feel like I'm running against them, I feel like I'm running to try to show the American people what I can do and what I can accomplish. — Rudy Giuliani

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. — Dan Quayle

Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign. — William J. Clinton

Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation. — John Eisenhower

We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Our aid is work for the American people. — Rajiv Shah

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept. — Thomas Friedman

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them. — Abraham Lincoln

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy. — Noam Chomsky

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do! — Bernadette Devlin

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. — Michael Caine

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. — Lyndon B. Johnson

In my fifty years of public life, I have never seen a man [Ronald Reagan] more popular with the American people — Tip O'Neill

Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on. — John Dingell

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game? — Grover Cleveland

We will win the hearts and minds of the American people with an agenda for a stronger and more prosperous America. — Mike Pence

To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong. — Isaac Asimov

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all. — Ben Bradlee

I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics. — Gabrielle Giffords